We will understand God and our life experiences better if we grasp a point; We live in the Kingdom of Maya, we are not living in Krsna/God's Kingdom. We see cruelty, selfishness, pain. We see an eye for an eye. This is the law in Maya's prisonhouse. We reside here as seperatists banned from Heaven until we reform.
Mayaya apahrta jnana, our spiritual knowledge is stolen by Maya. - Srila Prabhupada
Expect suffering, and do not blame a callous Godhead. We suffer because we left our Father's house to live in the streets of Gomorrah. God does not personally manage each step we take, each good or bad turn. Rather like the laws of physics, we are subject to strictest interpretation of the laws of karma, unlike living in God's house, where it is directly His oversight which determines every turn. Due to our impersonal cold turning of our backs on Godhead, we suffer cold cruel impersonal laws and experience sufferings.
sarva dharman parityaja; Give up all these paths and ways and become My devotee. Gita As It Is, 18;66
The intelligent or well-instructed person makes every effort to reconciliate this affront to normal cooperative voluntary spiritual reason, and goes Back to Godhead. Sri Krsna are not ordinary persons. To that extent we turn away from the Source, to that extent we become entangled in externalities, confusion, mistakes, karma, and troubles.
guru krsna prasada pai; krsna lata bhija. By grace of Guru and Krsna, all desirable things are attained, the seed of love is sewn. - Srila Prabhupada
Mayaya apahrta jnana, our spiritual knowledge is stolen by Maya. - Srila Prabhupada
Expect suffering, and do not blame a callous Godhead. We suffer because we left our Father's house to live in the streets of Gomorrah. God does not personally manage each step we take, each good or bad turn. Rather like the laws of physics, we are subject to strictest interpretation of the laws of karma, unlike living in God's house, where it is directly His oversight which determines every turn. Due to our impersonal cold turning of our backs on Godhead, we suffer cold cruel impersonal laws and experience sufferings.
sarva dharman parityaja; Give up all these paths and ways and become My devotee. Gita As It Is, 18;66
The intelligent or well-instructed person makes every effort to reconciliate this affront to normal cooperative voluntary spiritual reason, and goes Back to Godhead. Sri Krsna are not ordinary persons. To that extent we turn away from the Source, to that extent we become entangled in externalities, confusion, mistakes, karma, and troubles.
guru krsna prasada pai; krsna lata bhija. By grace of Guru and Krsna, all desirable things are attained, the seed of love is sewn. - Srila Prabhupada
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